Similar to the tail command which shows you the last few lines of a text file, the head command lets you to quickly view the first few lines. The head command syntax. head [options] file By default head will show you the first 10 lines of a text file. $ head textfile.txt You can change [...]

Similar to the head command which shows you the first few lines of a text file, the tail command lets you to quickly view the last few lines of a text file. It also supports a monitoring mode which displays ongoing changes within the file. The tail command syntax. tail [options] file By default tail [...]